Tuesday, September 22, 2009

MSDN Forums or Stackoverflow?

I used to go to two forums for Windows development discussion or looking for help. They are MSDN forums and stackoverflow.com. I can't say which one is better than the other. They are both helpful depending on your question. Here is my experience with tow forum community.

MSDN Forums:

MSDN forums are sponsored by Microsoft. They are all about Microsoft Windows development. Some forums are very active, for example, IE browser extension development forum. Usually questions are answered very quickly after posted. The answer's quality usually is good if it is not too tricky hard. Most of time, there are some MVPs taking care of forum and answering questions.

Statckoverflow.com

Statckoverflow was started by Joel Spolsky. This site is for any kind of development discussion. I would say this site is the most active development forums I ever seen. You can always get answer for development questions. Even though some answers are not what you need. They still shed light on you for further investigation.

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